And you want to be sure they contain the ingredients you saw listed on the label.

To ensure you’re getting what you’re looking for in a natural product, we use comprehensive laboratory testing.

At NOW® we’ve made a significant investment in in-house labs so we can test our products at multiple stages during production. We’re one of the few manufacturers that have this kind of in-house testing capability.

In just one month, we may perform as many as 16,000 individual tests. We test in order to meet US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for dietary supplement manufacturing. But we also go beyond these requirements.

Here’s what we test . . . and why:

We Test All Raw Materials

We make sure that the raw materials that come through our facilities’ doors, as well as supplements formulated and manufactured off site, meet GMP standards.

We test to make sure there are no mold, bacteria or other biological contaminants.

We Test Our Manufacturing Facilities

To make sure the products you buy from us with confidence are contaminant-free, we test various sites throughout our manufacturing plant for the presence of unwanted microbes.

We Test the Final Products

And finally, when everything is mixed and packaged, we test our finished products according to the testing requirements set out in the FDA cGMPs. This final round of testing ensures the product matches our specifications and is contaminant-free at the end of the production line.

Accurate Testing Depends On Excellent Equipment and Skilled Staff

You can test all you want. But if you don’t pay attention to two factors, the tests aren’t worth much at all. For this reason . . .

We have the right instrumentation. NOW’s recently renovated and expanded laboratory facilities feature state-of-the-art testing instruments. This includes inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS), high performance liquid chromatographs (HPLC), a new Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer (FTIR) and an ultraviolet/visible spectrometer (UV/VIS). Primary analyses are also performed in-house using gas chromatography (GC). In addition we have added a new super high tech time of flight liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (TOF-LCMS) that will help us test difficult to test products.